The Kingdom of Spain is expected to price its first syndicated issue in almost a year later on Wednesday in a sign that confidence is slowly returning to eurozone peripheral sovereigns.

Former Spanish Primer Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, criticized for intervening in Alberto Contador’s doping case when still in office, has questioned the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s decision to ban the cyclist for two years.

NEWS RELEASE ALGOMA UNIVERSITY *************************** Spanish institution visits Algoma University CESINE Centro Universitario in Sault Ste.

Every year, she, like many Spaniards, strategically deploys paid vacation days as puentes – literally, bridges – to skip town for an extra-long weekend whenever public holidays fall in the middle three days of a week.

Spaniards march through the streets of Madrid, Nov. 27, 2011, to protest spending cuts, high unemployment and political corruption.

Valencia, SPAIN: Another lazy day for members of Italian Luna Rossa Challenge as they wait for the wind to pick up on the third day of racing in the challenger selection series of the Louis Vuitton Cup in Valencia, 18 April 2007.

The world’s oldest works of art have been found in a cave on Spain’s Costa del Sol, scientists believe.

The Government has announced today that they will impulse plans to allow the retired to continue to work if they wish.

BARCELONA, Spain: Spanish leaders and the entire art world mourned Tuesday the passing of the great avant-garde painter and sculptor Antoni Tapies, who died Monday in Barcelona, aged 88.

Niinisto took 63 percent of the votes again Greens candidate Pekka Haavisto’s 37 percent in a runoff Sunday, confirming the popularity of the National Coalition Party that won last year’s parliamentary elections to take the prime minister’s post.

El Mundo has a photo of the rider and says the TAS has punished him without knowing what happened.

BARCELONA — In November, the conservative People's Party, led by Mariano Rajoy, stormed to power on a platform of sweeping reforms and drastic austerity measures.

Logistics Supply Vessel ‘Montarik’ was delivered at the end of 2011 to the ship service company Gibunco for operations in Gibraltar harbour.

Brussels has today warned Greece that it’s time for talking ‘is over’. Merkel and Sarkozy have reminded the country that there will be no second rescue package unless they accept the adjustments being imposed by the EU and the IMF.

Outraged Spaniards rallied behind three-times Tour de France champion Alberto Contador on Monday, decrying his two-year doping suspension as disgraceful and unfair.

The mass of polar air over the continent is being replaced by another mass of polar air, but which has come over the Atlantic which makes it damper and less cold.

Most of the papers lead with more on the Socailist Party following the victory in the leadership vote for Alfredo PA©rez Rubalcaba at the weekend.

The most recent Economically Active Population Survey has confirmed what the employment services have been announcing month after month: after the respite in the summer, unemployment is soaring again in the province of Malaga.

Nebraska went stone cold in the second half Sunday in falling to Minnesota 69-61 in Big Ten men’s basketball.

Spanish bank Sabadell has begun sounding out investors about a rights issue worth up to 1.2 billion euros , the Financial Times reported on Monday.

As 2011 had been such a difficult economic year, it was expected that the Poppy Appeal for the District North area would reflect this downturn.

Beverly and John Kim of Pearl City were strolling through Barcelona, Spain, when they came upon the Aloha Tattoos shop.

Spain’s new government gave banks an extra year to recognize losses if they agree to merge, as it tries to overhaul the financial industry crippled by the collapse of the nation’s property boom four years ago.

February 4, 2012, Mallorca, Spain – Alberto Contador will race Sunday in the opening round of the Mallorca Challenge in what will be his final event ahead of the long-anticipated ruling in his ongoing doping case before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Barcelona , Spain , is full of fun things to do and interesting sites to explore.

Spain’s opposition Socialist party elected Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba as its secretary general on Saturday, replacing former Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as party leader.

In the season 3 premiere of Who Do You Think You Are?, Martin Sheen proves once and for all that his son Charlie’s anti-authoritarian streak is genetic.

The Government is opening a credit tap of 10 billion for the regional administrations so that they can pay their suppliers.

A first edition of Francisco Goya’s “Caprichos” prints will be on display at The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History starting Sunday.

Spain said Friday it had received guarantees that the United States will help clean up land contaminated with radioactivity after a mid-air collision in 1966 dumped four U.S. hydrogen bombs in the country’s south.

This picturesque rural retreat in the village of Burgos, a city in northern Spain has been designed by interior designer Mikel Larrinaga.

The old and the new contrast vividly in Madrid, where narrow cobbled lanes and 17th-century chapels border modern boulevards and gleaming skyscrapers.

A third British pensioner has died from Legionnaires’ disease while on holiday in Spain, officials say.

A picture of what will likely be Samsung’s most important phone at this month’s Mobile World Congress has been released to the wild.

Torresol Energy Gemasolar thermasolar plant, pictured in Fuentes de Andalucia, near Sevilla, southern Spain.

As Britain and Argentina sound off yet again about their rival claims to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands , it would not be completely fanciful to blame the Borgias for a dispute that has been blowing hot and cold for more than 300 years.

King Juan Carlos has said to day that the right to defence ‘is something all citizens should enjoy’. ‘I want to underline the special protection which the right to defence deserves, which all the citizens must enjoy in any State of Law’. He made the comment as the Duke of Palma, Inaki Urdangarin, has been [...]

Spanish banks must raise an additional euro50 billion to cover their exposure to toxic real estate loans and assets accumulated during a construction boom that went bust with the financial crisis, according to new regulations unveiled Thursday.

Spanish banks must raise an additional euro50 billion to cover their exposure to toxic real estate loans and assets accumulated during a construction boom that went bust with the financial crisis, according to new regulations unveiled Thursday.

Greece needs about an extra $20 billion to get its debt down to manageable levels – and the rest of the 17-country eurozone is being asked to help foot the bill.